A fly on the wall in a one man design studio in Hartford, CT

If you came to this page and your running IE, start by downloading firefox 3 here. Thats step 1 to getting a faster browser.
The rest of the steps, to varying degrees, will increase your browser’s speed. No doubt about it.
Piplelining, telling your browser to request multipul packets of data before any have been recieved, I […]

Brace yourself; this is a cool application. Taking cues from PC Anywhere and Goto My PC, Mesh allows you to access your computers, devices, programs, and files, from any computer that has an internet connection. All you have to do is previously download and set up their software on your PC and then you can […]

I saw this morning that A List Apart is doing their second annual web designers survey. I took part last year and am glad to take part again this year. Web business in general are run pretty differently than most other industries and this project hopes to help to decode just what sort of an […]

I wrote my first javascript application last night. I know it’s not very complex, its actually just a form handler. All the same though, I had wanted to write the handler in php, but that was not going to work as it would require the page to reload.
After I figured out I was using the […]

I was always in the mindset that you should always comment your code. It makes it easier to go back in later on and figure out what you’re doing to power the site, easier for someone else to reverse engineer it should something happen to you or the business arrangement, and it allows for freeware […]

Yahoo Small Business – If you have a single web minded person in your company do them a favor and DO NOT use yahoo small business. Their backend panel is an absolute mess.
I’m pretty savy with DNS, .htacess, and server side redirects; some of the people working in the tech center trying to guide me […]

What is a Longtail?
A website Long tail refers to the long list of unique search engine terms at the bottom of your search engine terms list in Analytics. According to Google, about half of the search engine terms used to find sites on the internet are unique, but even though uncommon, they are the essence […]

I know this has been coming for so long, but my site can wait much longer than my client’s. So without further adu I am delighted to announce the redesign of Hattersworkshop.com is complete.
Let me know what you think of the White on Grey on Black.
The right aligned nav, the overall look. Etc.
The first comment […]

This last week I was in a meeting discussing a client site. It was a typical business meeting that was going into overtime on a Friday afternoon, and then things turned for the worst… someone suggested “optimizing” the site’s navigation by adding in a few drop down menus. I almost willfully hung myself on my […]

I’d like to nominate Forbes.com as being the most annoying websites I’ve seen so far today. I have nothing good or bad to say against the printed magazine, or it’s content, but the website turned me way off.
For starters, the first thing I saw when I went to the site via an organic SE link […]

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